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ASC Awards: 'Gravity' Tops Cinematographer Honors

"Game of Thrones," "Drunk History," "Killing Lincoln" and "Ida" were the night's other winners.

Emmanuel "Chivo" Lubezki's rendering of Gravity won the feature competition at the 28th annual American Society of Cinematographers Outstanding Achievement Awards on Saturday at the Hollywood & Highland Ray Dolby Ballroom.

He topped a field of nominees that included Sean Bobbitt for 12 Years a Slave, Barry Ackroyd for Captain Phillips, Philippe Le Sourd for The Grandmaster, Bruno Delbonnel for Inside Llewyn Davis, Phedon Papamichael for Nebraska and Roger Deakins for Prisoners.

This is the third ASC feature award for Lubezki, who previously won for Children of Men and The Tree of Life. This puts him in some select company. In the event’s 28-year history, only one cinematographer, the late Conrad Hall, won the feature category four times. And, Lubezki now joins fellow nominee Deakins as the only cinematographers with three wins in the category.

Also this year, Lubezki received his sixth Oscar nomination, and is vying for his first Academy Award.

This year, the organization also presented an inaugural ASCSpotlight Award "to recognize outstanding cinematography in features and documentaries typically screened at film festivals, internationally or in limited theatrical release."

Also during the ceremony, cinematographer Dean Cundey, who earned an Oscar nomination in 1988 for Robert Zemeckis’ Who Framed Roger Rabbit, received the ASC Lifetime Achievement Award. His credits include Zemeckis' Back to the Future trilogy, Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park and Ron Howard's Apollo 13.

Eduardo Serra (The Wings of the Dove), who wasn't in attendance, was the recipient of the International Achievement Award, and Richard Rawlings Jr. (L.A. Law) received the society’s Career Achievement in Television Award.